A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
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Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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But aiblins, honest Master Heron
Had, at the time, some dainty fair one
To ware this
theologic
care on,
And holy study;
And tired o' sauls to waste his lear on,
E'en tried the body.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Among the troops who
were trained in the Greek
discipline
his Epirotes ranked high.
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My good I seek in the good of another,
This
marriage
means so much to all three;
Make my soul strong, or complete it swiftly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Said Zeno, "If I played the Marquis part,
I'd send this rubbish to the auction mart;
Out of the heap should come the finest wine,
Pleasure
and gala-fetes, were it all mine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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instructed
to decoy,
In gulfs to whelm them, or on rocks destroy.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Then all the
flatterers
and their squires cried out
Solicitous, with various voice, "Go to,
Old Rogue," or "Shall I brain him, my good Lord?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sin ye
Cryseyde
and me han fully brought
In-to your grace, and bothe our hertes seled,
How may ye suffre, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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We took
a great square stone in the temple for the Master's chair, and little
stones for the officer's chairs, and painted the black
pavement
with
white squares, and did what we could to make things regular.
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Kipling - Poems |
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net (This file was
produced from images generously made
available
by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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" "Good morrow," quoth Gawayne, "I shall act according to your
will with great pleasure, but permit me to rise that I may the more
comfortably
converse
with you.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Toward what eventual dream
Sleeps its cold on,
When into
ultimate
dark
These lives shall be gone,
And even of man not a shadow remain
Of all he has done?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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f
k
AsS ye go through these palm-trees,
O
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sed haec prius fuere: nunc
recondita
25
Senet quiete seque dedicat tibi,
Gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assail'd, or victor being charg'd;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy,
evermore
enlarg'd,
If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
helmsman*
used to stand by with tears in
his eyes: _he_ knew it was all wrong, but alas!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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How long thou shalt continue fair,
And (when
informed)
them throw'st away
To be the greedy vulture's prey.
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Marvell - Poems |
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]
Before I knew, the Dawn was on the road,
Close at my side, so
silently
he came
Nor gave a sign of salutation, save
To touch with light my sleeve and make the way
Appear as if a shining countenance
Had looked on it.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Brave lordly king, what's to be done
With our vast armies, great tournaments,
Bright courts, and fine gifts and handsome,
If you're gone, that had their
captaining?
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Troubador Verse |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not--dare not openly view it;
Never its
mysteries
are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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What most convinced me of the woman's guilt
Was finding hidden in her cellar wall
Those poppets made of rags, with
headless
pins
Stuck into them point outwards, and whereof
She could not give a reasonable account.
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Longfellow |
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What had Death in store to awe
Those eyes, that huge sea-beasts unmelting saw,
Saw the swelling of the surge,
And high
Ceraunian
cliffs, the seaman's scourge?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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my poor friend; buy that bottle, do, for it is going to
tear all your
prologues
to ribbons.
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Aristophanes |
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Such varlets pimp and jest for hire among the lying Greeks:
Such varlets still are paid to hoot when brave
Licinius
speaks.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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THE OLD CONTINENTALS
GUY
HUMPHREY
McMASTER
[Sidenote: 1775--1783]
_The nucleus of the Continental Army was the New England force
gathered before Boston, to the command of which Washington had been
appointed two days before the battle of Bunker Hill, although he
arrived too late to take part in that fight.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Diegue
He
conquered
who proved better on the day.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Which
troubled
once, into huge flames will grow, 65
Ne ever will their fervent fury slake,
Till living moysture into smoke do flow,
And wasted life do lye in ashes low.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I tell you, kings, yours are but stammer'd songs
To that enchantment fashion'd for him,
That ceremony of life's powers,
The
loveliness
of Vashti;
That unbelievable worship made
For King Ahasuerus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Among such as these I cannot hope for friends
And am pleased with anyone who is even
remotely
human!
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And oft-times mere
delusions
that receive
No just accomplishment.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I denounce this fellow; he has had tasty stews
exported
from
Athens for the Spartan fleet.
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Aristophanes |
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Many a time they kiss and cry, and pray
That both be summoned in the self-same day,
And wiseman linnet
tinkling
in his cage
End too with them the friendship of old age,
And all together leave their treasured room
Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Full of music--full of manhood, womanhood,
infancy!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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e vp
betweene
the _Acts_, let fall my cloake,
Publi?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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atque ita naue leui nitens ac lenibus auris
magnanimum
ad Minoa uenit sedesque superbas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Pitiful he whose
conscience
is unclean!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Note: 'True love' in verse two, is fins amor, noble love, the
troubadour
ideal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It first
appeared
in the
"Union Magazine," and with the omission, contrary to the knowledge or
desire of Poe, of the line, "Oh, God!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And you, sir, for this chain
arrested
me.
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Shakespeare |
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I'd
Be
satisfied
if he'd be satisfied.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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=
Theatres
and taverns.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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995
But
innocence
has nothing, in the end, to fear.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Straight to the guardian of the bristly kind
He thus began, benevolent of mind:
"What guest is he, of such
majestic
air?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Where
leafless
oaks towered high above, 5
I sat within an undergrove
Of tallest hollies, tall and green;
A fairer bower was never seen.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"--the
Nightingale
cries to the Rose
That sallow cheek of hers to' incarnadine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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How could the poem have been
suggested
in front of Alfoxden?
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying to every word a
twinborn
sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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He was a nephew of the
historian Philo; had been
Procurator
of Judaea and chief of
Corbulo's staff in Armenia.
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Tacitus |
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To be eternal--what a
brilliant
thought!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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]
[41] ["This whole episode in the private life of the Foscari family is
valuable chiefly for the light it throws upon the
internal
history of
Venice.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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For the poore Wren
(The most
diminitiue
of Birds) will fight,
Her yong ones in her Nest, against the Owle:
All is the Feare, and nothing is the Loue;
As little is the Wisedome, where the flight
So runnes against all reason
Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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' This, the next two verses add,
explains
why at Court
it is your virtue which transcends, in the country your beauty.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
DAMOETAS
"How lean my bull amid the
fattening
vetch!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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CIII
Sir Gryphon, from the time he heard the news
Had evermore
bemoaned
him, day or night:
Whatever pleasure other wight pursues
Seems but the more to vex his troubled sprite.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my
forwardness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Now I am gon, whom yeve ye
audience?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No
mightier
birth may He beget;
No like, no second has He known;
Yet nearest to her sire's is set
Minerva's throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His cope[41] was all of Lyncolne clothe so fyne, 50
With a gold button fasten'd neere his chynne;
His autremete[42] was edged with golden twynne,
And his shoone pyke a loverds[43] mighte have binne;
Full well it shewn he thoughten coste no sinne;
The
trammels
of the palfrye pleasde his sighte; 55
For the horse-millanare[44] his head with roses dighte.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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His diction,
like the diction of Milton and Gray,
resembles
mosaic work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Cestius, in his time, was
preferred to Cicero, so far as the
ignorant
durst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Expose your jewels then unto the view,
That we may praise them, or
themselves
prize you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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In midst of all, the
venerable
priest
Eyed them with joy from greatest to the least,
And, after lifting up his aged hands,
Thus spake he: "Men of Latmos!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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General William Booth Enters Into
Mitchell
Kennerley 1913
Heaven
The Congo and Other Poems The Macmillan Company 1915
The Chinese Nightingale The Macmillan Company 1917
The Golden Whales of California The Macmillan Company 1920
JAMES OPPENHEIM
Monday Morning and Other Poems Sturgis & Walton Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
23:
'Great account and much profit is made of
_Unicornes
horn_, at least
of that which beareth the name thereof,' &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Longing
outspeeds
the breeze, I know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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e good
prophete
Elye,
ffor ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you;
You are always my good friend; if your will pass,
I shall both find your
lordship
judge and juror,
You are so merciful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is
advancing
to
welcome it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Bold James survives, no dangers make him
flinch,
He marries signor Fal h's
pregnant
wench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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To recapitulate then:--I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as
_The
Rhythmical
Creation of Beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But were he not in this black habit decked,
This half
transparent
man would soon reflect
Each colour that he past by, and be seen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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We see and hold the good--
Bear witness, Earth, we have made our choice
With Freedom's
brotherhood!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
receiving
it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka
Otrepiev
is anathema!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XLV
Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare,
As all
unweeting
of that well she knew,
And paynd himselfe with busie care to reare
Her out of carelesse swowne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
"
'We put out to sea, keeping the Ceraunian
mountains
close at hand,
whence is the shortest passage and seaway to Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Dire was the hate at old Harlaw,
That Scot to Scot did carry;
And dire the discord
Langside
saw,
For beauteous, hapless Mary:
But Scot with Scot ne'er met so hot,
Or were more in fury seen, Sir,
Than 'twixt Hal and Bob for the famous job--
Who should be Faculty's Dean, Sir.
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Robert Burns |
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Before that dire
disgrace
shall blast my fame,
O'erwhelm me, earth; and hide a warrior's shame!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then roll'd the raft at random in the flood,
Wallowing
unwieldy, toss'd from wave to wave.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Household
Gods who presided over the hearth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
variation
of readings, with the fact that she often wrote in
pencil and not always clearly, have at times thrown a good deal of
responsibility upon her Editors.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Enter
Macbeths
Lady, and a Seruant.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Stephen Crane |
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To a
man, who has a home, however humble or remote--if that home is like
mine, the scene of domestic comfort--the bustle of Edinburgh will soon
be a
business
of sickening disgust.
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Robert Burns |
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